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out late to work, are seen working in chains in these penal gangs, cleaning the streets. Thus any get mof modesty they might possess is destroyed. One of these girls is probably chained to a thief, or woman of infamous character; if she has been heretofore pure in her con duct, the chances are strongly in favour of her being corrupted by the vices of her companions. Once seen amangst the criminals in the s o treetsf disgrace attaches to her name, though she has really been guilty f no offence, except one of the most trifling nature, proceeding from the carelessness of youth ; and yet, for this cause, she is made to asso. diate with all the vilest criminals of the chain gang. The strongest re preseniations were made by the Governor to the different Custodes, in forming them that he had been directed by the Secretary for the Colo_ nies to call their attention to this circumstance, in the hope that they would except young females, of the above description, from this dis. graceful punishment ; but it has never been asserted that, in a single i nstance, the p rac ti ce was i n consequence a b a ndoned." Now, I beg you to remark, lam quoting no individual case of cruelty, what I give you r elates to syst ems, an d i t i s g i ven b y men w ho if they utter not the truth, utter it not only in violation of the truth, but against every motive that could induce them on this question to be guarded and temperate. Will direct your attention for a few moments to the hospitals of Jamaica. .1. will not car r y y ou t o th e pr i sons w h ere the negroes are slaughtered— I will not carry y ou t o th a t p l ace o f blood, the workhouse of St. Ann's, J amaica, where eleven women died, one of them hanging by her wrists to the rail above the treadmill, her body dropping blood, while her soul escaped to its Maker—l will not carry you to that workhouse where el even women in one year were slaughtered—an .inquest held on every O ne of them, twelve white men sitting to return a verdict on their oaths, and yet the evidence was complete that they were murdered, they re turned in every instance, a verdict of—" Died by the Visitation of God." —(Loud cries of n Shame, shame.") I will not carry you to the prisons, but to the hospitals, to the abodes of the sick. You all know what an hospital is in this country, where it is situate, what is its size, what the skill °f t haPhysician andi what . thecare of the nurses. The building is large, it stands on the finest elevation, and that which is the greatest ornament of Your country is your hospital. What is a Jamaica hospital ? The Marquis of Sligo introduces the abuses of hospitals with these words : Into these generally small buildings, males and females, lunatics, aged people, and those with contagious diseases, are all huddled together. There is generally no second room, or any other conveniency, such as health or even decency requires, for the diurnal necessities of its in 'slates. These poor creatures all sleep on a guard bed, which extends along one side of the room, without any bed-clothes whatever, though the land breeze is piercingly cold at night, and the blacks are peculiarly sensitive to its effects, To add to the misery of the place, the doors are generally kept locked, —always said to be so by the doctor's directions, in order to prevent its occupants from injuring their health by Walking about. They are often kept thus locked-up the whole of the t wenty.four hours, with the exception of half au hour each morning and evening, when the doors are opened in order to allow the patients to receive from their friends their own provisions. There is much reason to fear that this species of confinement is frequently ordered, for the purpose of annoying and perseuting the poor unfortunate a pprentices. The stocks are had recourse to, in addition, for the same purpose; people with sore legs are often placed in them, in order, as alleged, to prevent them from walking ; when it must strike every person, that inflammation is much more likely to ensue, if the diseased limb is placed between thick boards, than if the individual were allowed to walk about the hospital-room at his own discretion." Here is the hospital system generally. Now take an instance of cruelty that occurred in one of these hospitals. In the next page the Marquis of Sligo says :—" In the case of Parsons, the overseer on the estate of Mr. Richard Barrett, it was proved that a poor woman, whose death was the subject of examination, was found by the magistrate, who made the discovery, lying on a heap of filth, occasioned by her own illness, which had never been removed since she was placed in a per fectly helpless state in that bed; also, that her own daughter had sat for hours at the doer, imploring in vain for permission to be locked in with her mother, in order to attend and clean her ! I" That's the hospital s ystem.—(Shame.) In the 76th pageof this book, we have something in reference to the flogging of women. I may here state that when the a bolitionists represented to the Government that the flogging of womeis Was practised in Jamaica in violation of the law, and that the Assembly of that Island had done nothing to prevent it, he members of that Assembly drew up a memorial, which was, I believe, unanimously adopted and sent over to this country, denying the charge, and stating in the body of it that the House repudiated in the strongest terms the accusation that the whipping of females was practised in Jamaica. Let us hear the Marquis of Sligo, who declares that " proofs on oath of More than 40 cases had been transmitted home by him to Lord Glenelg, and copies of those 40 cases sent to every Member of that House of As sembly. Then, again, I must refer to an extraordinary case 88 illustrative of the system, still, and here I may say that our quarrel With Lord Glenelg'e Bill that is now on its way to the colonies, is not so much: with that Bill viewed as an abstract theory, but as a parti cular measure, intended to cure certain evils in a certain method, and by certain instrumentalities. Look at it clause by clause, and although When first looked at it appears a humane enactment, yet when you re member by whom it is to be administered, it is worse than useless, and I , a cruel and insulting mockery to the unfortunate negro.—(Cries of " Hear.") Here is a case in point. Nineteen negroes were bru tally assaulted by a planter of the name of Giles. They came down to Spanish Town, the residence of Lord Sligo, in order to put the Matter into the hands of a humane solicitor of the name of Harvey. Mr. Harvey took down the depositions, and then proceeded to find a Magistrate who would swear the nineteen complaining negroes to the truth of their depositions. So close was the collusion between the judges of the island and the planters, that Mr, Harvey could not find a judge or magistrate in the capital of that colony who would swear the negroes. He applied to the Marquis of Sligo, and the Marquis tells us he was obliged to make another justice in order to get those depositions taken.—(Cheers and cries of " Shame.") They were taken. The Marquis of Sligo tells us the affidavits disclose circumstances of a serious nature on the part of Giles. After the negros had made good their case, Mr. Giles brought an action against Mr. Harvey, for har bouring nineteen of his apprentices, and got damages to the amount of 1991. 101.—(Cries of Shame.) Where is the negro then to obtain jus tice I s --(Hear, hear.) I will now proceed for a moment to another authority, Sir Lionel Smith. He tells the planters in one of his mes sages delivered on the 31st of October, 1837, that the island was subject to a reproach, because the negroes were now, in some respects, in a worse condition than they were during the time of slavery. And I recollect well Lord Glenelg saying in his Memorable speech on the 20th February last, that it was the duty of Parliament to see the negro was not in a worse condition now than he was in the days of slavery.—(Laughter.) I have the testimony of Lord Glenelg, because in the parliamentary paper of the 9th March, 1838, there is a long letter from Lord Glenelg to Sir L. Smith, and now let Us see whether the Government have been ignorant of the abuses of the system. In a despatch, 'dated 15th Nov. 1837, Lord Glenelg says, " In my despatch, No. 84, of the 29th Aug. 1835, I urged an amendment of the law,bywhich the ill-treatment of women in jails might beprevented," 8 0 that the ill treatment of women was what Lord Glenelg had written about so far back as August, 1835, and . you all know his Lordship is not celebrated fe r being over "vigilant--(Cheers and laughter.) I inn st, therefore, assume that the women were ill trc ated in the gaols, as Lord Glenelg wou d not have given himself the trouble to have writ ten. Then he goes on : " In my despatch, No. 19.5, of the 15th October, 18: 4 5, I desired that the Assembly should be reminded of the pressing importance of enactments to secure the attendance of the children of apprentices at schools. I n my despatch, No. 257, of the 24th April, 1836, I seconded the wishes of the Marquis of Sligo for laws to restrain cruelty in hospitals, and to authorize the inspection of them by special justices at all hours. A Committee of the Assembly alleged, it is true, that the right to in spect was not disputed : but I find by the despatches now before me, that the attendance and proper treatment of the sick is not yet secured by law, although defects of the law on this head were pointed to by Lord Stanley at the very beginning of the apprenticeship, in his despatch of the 20th February, 1834, No. 3. " In my despatch, No. 285, of the 14th June, 1536, I desired that the Assembly should be applied to for a law to restrain the powers of officers in workhouses to the infliction of such punishments only as should have been authorised in writing by a Magistrate. " In my despatch, No. 303, of the 28th June, 1836, I directed applica tion to be made to the Assembly for a law to prevent the flogging of Women on the treadmill. " In my despatches, Nos. 87 and 103, of the 29th April, and 10th June, 1837, I had to regret the refusal of the Assembly to entertain the various proposals which you had brought before them, for supplyng de 4eiences in the Abolition Act, and for the obtaining uniformity in the distribution of the hours of labour; and in my despatch, No. 176, of the 31st of last month, I was under the necessity of issuing such instruc t.mns as had become necessary, in . consequence of the Assembly hav ing failed to adopt the recommendation of the Committee of the }louse of Commons in the Session of 1836, respecting amendments in the law which governs the valuation of apprentices for the purchase of their discharge. In my despatch, No. 99, of the 25th of May, of this year, I desired that the Assembly should be called on to exempt the apprentices from the operation of certain enactments respecting vagrants." Is not this evidence of the violation of this part of the contract ? Nc w, I'll turn to a dispatch from Sir L. Smith himself, and I will shcw you how far they have attend• d to these things.—(Loud and continued cheering.) Sir L. Smith confirms what the Marquis of Sligo has said, by sending down to the Parliament of Jamaica a mes sage, in which he declares, first, that the apprentices had been de prived of cooks and water-carriers while at work in the field. Those they were never deprived of in the days of slavery. [Mr. Thomp son then referred to numerous other official communications, by Which he proved that the negro was not now so well off as Ile was previous to the passing of the Emancipation Act.] Now, Sir, if more evidence be wanting, (and I know not what to think of the un derstanding of the man who requires it), we have it in the shape of an Imperial Act of Parliament. For I find in Lord Glenelg's Act, clauses regulating the hours of labour, to prevent the obstruction of magistrates in the discharge of their duty, to prevent the flogging of women, and so forth. And I put the question confidently to the honest minds of those before me, is this Bill necessary or is it unnecessary I Is this a work of superogoration ? Is it a piece of superfluous legis. lation ? Is it a waste of the time and money and the authority neces sary to make British laws ? Have we legislated in 1830 with reference to the flogging of women, the treatment of the sick, the punish ment on the treadmill, and the abandonment of children, use lessly, or from sheer necessity ?—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") No one will say that Lord Glenelg, and, least of all, Sir George Grey, are capable of unjustly criminating the planters. Well then, I say ourcase is made out, by that Bill, and yet with that Bill in his hand, moving the Second reading of it, conjuring the House to throw over Sir S. Strick land's motion. Sir G. Grey told us the cases of cruelty were one in a thousand; that when they occurred, they were all punishable by law, and that there was the utmost energy in the Colonial functionaries to cornet them. This he said, while moving the second reading of a 1311 1, proving the truth of what we state, of cruelty being the rule, and iindness the exception.—(Loud cheers.) I will not further go into our case; but will refer for one moment to the difficulties which we have had already to contend with.—(Hear.) We are not here to snake out our cases—that has been done. We are not met to enlighten the country—that is done; and the sympathy of the land is awakened. We are not met to inform the Government of the country— that has been done, by petitions, by memorials, and by dele- Mations. We are not met here to petition for the first ti me, and, as Mr. Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson had t o do, actually to open the eyes of Members by producing the model of a slave ship on - the table; that has been done. They have been waited upon at their houses—they have been waited for in the lobbies --they have been called out of the House —they have been waylaid at their country seats—they have been found out at dinners; at Cam bridge, at Stroud, and Tiverton, and wherever else they went; almost e very Member of Parliament has been enlightened, circulars have been sent—addresses have been delivered—all these agencies have been employed.—(Hear.) Then why are we here this moving? Have we brought our question in a tangible shape before the House of Com mons ? Yes—Sir G. Strickland did that on the 29th of the last month. • Why, then, are we here tuis morning ? Let the truth go forth—the country is with us, but the Cabinet is against us.—(Loud cheers.) The genius of this great empire is on our sides—the sympathies of the World are with us—the literature of the world is ours—the religion of the country is ours : there is not a deeper feeling on any subject than on this—there is not a cause lifted higher above the murky and troubled atmosphere of party-politics than our's—there is not one on which you can unite men of all parties to such a degree as you can upon t his, not one besides.—(llear, hear, hear.) How is it, then, we have bees: denied? I cannot tell, I don't know, I know not how it is that the Government has frowned on the Abolitionists and smiled °° the West Indians ; or how it is that they have given to twelve "at they denied to twelve millions.--;Loud cheers.) I know not know how it is that a Government made by agitation—kept in place by agitation—when they went out of office brought back by agita tion —the very fungus of excitements—l know not how it is they can now denounce, the purest and most herven-born excitement by which our country has ever been distinguished since the days of martyrs to the Protestant faith..—(Cheers.) They have not told us. They have told us some things, and they have arguments plenty, for they can afford to pay fm . them— (Laughter)—because they have a dozen scribes to make them—defences, because there is a man who can write eloquently in the Edinburgh Review, and insert vindications of the colonial policy between the blue and buff sheets of that depository of Scotch philosophy.—(Great laughter.) Their great argument is the contract, and the only one on which I will touch. It seems to be their bugbear. There are two opinions as to the exist ence of a contract. Some say there is a contract, and some say there is not. Lord Brougham, Lord Denman, and Lord Seaford say there was no contract; Lord Glenelg, Sir George Grey, and Sir Edward Sugden say there was. Did the Parliament make a law, or enter into a contract ? Blackstone said, " that Parliament were not contractors, that Governments contract." You see their advertisements on the walls for butchers' meat, soldiers' caps, bricks, iron fetters, —negroes' blood—but Blackstone says Parliament does not contract. The functions of Parliament are to make, amend, abridge, repeal, and abrogate laws. Well let us admit the contract, we can afford to do so; and the first remark I have to make on this celebrated instrument is, that it is necessarily limited because essentially immoral. --(Cheers.) No lawyer in this place will dispute the truth of what I say that any contract which is shown to be immoral, is, ipso facto, invalid. —(Cheers.) I deny that a handful of men have a right to give away the labour of 800,000 human beings. I ask whether they were compe tent to give away the labour of 800,000 beings who were not present, and not consenting parties ? I deny their competency, and while I have breath I will preach against such a compact, though it does come to me in the name of the Imperial Parliament, with the Queen's arms at the top of it.—(Cheers.) I say, it is constitutionally null and void. We are not at liberty to enter into an immoral contract, and I deny that Parliament can do what it is not competent for us to do.—(Cheers.) Could two Magistrates agree to give the labour of a third party to any person in this neighbourhood without his consent if that person was rational and unoffending ? Nothing of the sort. We instructed our representatives to liberate the negro, not to make him a slave.— (Great cheering.) In the next place I repudiate it because the parties most concerned were never consulted.—(Cheers.) The old man of 70 was not brought into Court to give his assent to an apprenticeship of six years, and to work or be flogged and murdered on the treadmill. The contract has been violated by the planters to do injustice, and why should we not violate it to do justice?—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) They have violated it to oontinue slavery, we will violate it to abolish slavery. Lord Glenelg's own Bill is a direct violation of the contract, for several clauses of the original Act are absolutely re pealed.—(Hear, hear.) The Bill does two things. First, it proves the planters have violated the contact; and, secondly, that the planters have violated the contract themselves.—(Cheers.) Now, I will venture to say that though feebly, I know, that, thanks to these precious official documents around one, I have made our case, first, that the negro is a man; secondly, that he is tit for freedom ; thirdly, that he is an injured man; fourthly, that any contract entered into was without his consent, and that being entered into, it has been violated by the party whose cooperation and acquies ence, was purchased by 20,000,000/. of British gold.—(Cheers.) I have proved also that this very Bill which has been manufactured in the Colonial Office for the correction of abuses, proves, in the first place, that the contract has been violated, and, in the second place, that it has itself violated that contract.—(Hear, hear, hear.) And now, I think, I have a right to claim from this assembly, on behalf of the Negro who is distant, and cannot be heard—who is disfranchised and cannot help himself—who is friendless ? and there fore, unless he be heard by some volunteer like myself, cannot make known to you his earnest prayer. I have a right to ask for the negro, no matter what is to be undone or what is to be done--no matter what will be required in the shape of money, or what is to be overpaid—that, at all hazards, let justice be done—the rights of our brethren be respected—the Constitu tion of this land be properly administered—our Queen be rescued from that dishonour which would be hers, though innocently—if, on the day on which Westminster Abbey shall resound with the Corona. tion Anthem, and when the sceptre is placed in her fair hand; and which should be as fair as the hand that grasps it ; it should be tinged with slavery and blood.—(Loud cheers.) It may be said, "be satisfied with that Bill." I cannot—l will not—l dare not be satisfied with the Bill—(Cheers)—and why not ? Not so much because it is not in itself humane, both in its design and provisions; but because it carries with it to the Colonies no s elf-executing principle—it is worth no more than it will bring—it will bring nothing in the shape of good— it will realize nothing but disappointment and mockery.— (Hear.) Upon whom did it depend ? Solely upon the special magistrates and the Governor. And here, by-the-bye, he would remark that it was a singular sort of Bill. Slavery existed, and therefore must be put down by despotism. It was the Governor and the special magistrates versus the planters, the book_keepers, the overseers, the wharfingers, and the members of the Legislature of the colony. In the first place the Bill depended upon the Governor, but then he is to act by and with the consent of the Privy Council. His authority then went for nothing— for who are the Council ? The planters—men who have a stake in the country, and who have treated with vituperation and scorn the recommendations of the British Legislature. Then with respect to the Governor himself—l don't wish to disparage him, but I contend that hitherto the West India Colonies have been go. verned by men who, if honest, have been obliged to return, like the Marquis of Sligo, the most honest and upright Governor Jamaica ever had, or if they remain they are compelled to side with the planters, and swim with the stream. How can the Governors know anything! The flogging of women had been going on for three months within 200 yards of the Marquis of Sligo's residence, and he knew not of it. Who then would tell him? Would the planters come post haste and tell him of the abut es and cruelties that they themselves practised; and when he knows of them, how is he to execute justice ? The special magis trates, says Sir George Grey, are honourable men ; but I have not much faith in them, for they are on the most intimate terms, and are in the habit of receiving constant kindnesses from the planters. Then it should be recollected that these men are going out of office in two years—that the Government could nothing for them—and that they are making for themselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when they are put out they may re ceive them into their houses.—(Great cheering.) Upon the governors' and special magistrates then the Bill entirely depends. I call upon you to reject this Bill, and to demand instead of it, entire, immediate, unconditional, and uncompensated emancipation.—(Loud cheering.) And with respect to that word uncompensated, I must observe that the Government never yet, with all its fine sense of honour towards the planters, and with all its desire to keep faith with the West Indians, never uttered the word compensation with respect to the negro. That man who has been deeply injured, robbed from his birth, no repose in mind and body, because the one has been neglected, and the ether abused or polluted— that man now stands before us, and on his behalf we do not solicit as a favour, but demand as a right that he should receive that freedom of which he has been so cruelly and unjustly deprived. Shame, eternal shame upon those who stand forward as the advocates of the planter, when they deny to the poor and injured negro his freedom from cruelty and op pression for the next two years. And yet Lord Glenelg says, take my Bill and be thankful. What would you say to a :Magistrate on the bench who, when called on to adjudicate upon a gross injury sustained by one individual from another, and when it was proved that the com plainant had been injured in person and property—in mind, in body, and estate, should say " Well, it is all true—l fully admit that you are an injured man ; but my friend (speaking to the defendant), will you come here and take a seat beside me—l want to speak to you. I shall be obliged to deprive you of tho services of that man, but we shall make a county rate, and settle it all. Good man stand up. Yost have been deeply injured and insulted—you have been spit upon and robbed of your privileges—l have taken your case into consideration—be thankful—go upon your knees and receive it with unutterable emotion. You shant be injured any more—there, you may go."---(Loud and continued cheering.) This is the sum total of the humanity of the Government. By so much as they have esti mated what the planters are entitled to, by so much has the negro been robbed. Tell me of the value of apprenticeship, and I will tell you of Mr. Gladstone being the arithmetician of how much the negro has been robbed. The British Government have been talking about their ar rangements and their understandings with the planters, and their ne. cessity of keeping good faith ; but I will put it on this footing —somebody has been robbing eight hundred thousand indivi duals of the fruits of their industry, and settle the guilt, as Lou please, it must be done away with.—(Great cheering.) The planter says it is not with me—the money has been given by the Parliament ; the Parliament says it is not with me—we have made a contract. We, the people of England, will take the question up; and as the negro has no friend in Jamaica, or in Downing street, or in Palace-yard, we will tell him that he has a hallful of friends in Chelmsford ; and that Episcopa lians, and Methodists, and Baptists, and Wesleyans, and Independents, and Friends, and Quakers, men and women too, are with him, and if we do not make a majority, I don't know who will.—(Great applause.) Let us but persevere, and we will yet achieve a triumph. The late division on the question could scarcely be called a Parliamentary de. feat, and most certainly it was a moral triumph. There were three courses open to Government on that occasion ; they were not bound to oppose i t and then we should have a majority of 217, we should have every liberal Irish Member with us, and a great many others. 'We had Col, Verner and Mr. Litton, two distinguished Hon. Conservatives, and next to them Daniel O'Connell and Maurice O'Connell, not often found in such company.—(Hear.) But the Government did not take that course Then they might have taken a second course, to leave the question to be decided upon its own separate and independent merits, by dividing on Sir George Strickland's motion. That did not suit them, but they took a third course. I will not call it unfair, but it was unkind. They moved the second reading of their own Bill—thus placing their supporters in a dilemma of opposing the Government, and thereby annihilate their own measure, or by voting with the Government repu. diate the principle of immediate emancipation. Considering the great power of the West India planters in the House, I think our minority of 217 a most exhilarating one. Let us think no more then of Lord John Russell's most strange declaration that he would not be intimidated—that he would not yield to agitation or the pressure from without. We were told that we had taken the Government by surprise, and that we had raised a hurricane about their ears.—(Hear.) The Abolition Bill was not 12 months old when Mr. Buxton brought forward a case which induced the Government to go down and ask for additional powers. Eighteen months afterwards a Committee of Enquiry was moved for, which was negatived. Then a memorial to Lord Glenelg ; then, in March 1836, a Committee of Enquiry was granted ; then the statements of the missionaries—then Joseph Sturge came out—and then William's narrative—and then the appeals made by the aboli tionists to the people of England.—(Hear, hear.) It only remains to prove that we are not making this a political question. God forbid that we should do so. But let us tell them that whoever are the Go vernment our course is plain and straight-forward. We stand now where we stood in 1833—the negro is still a slave, and must be free. Whatever be the results to the Government, we must move forward. They must either get out of the way, or, keeping in the way, we must get over them, arid, if they don't allow us, they must move out,—(Loud cheers.) If we dared—if our principles let us avail ourselves of means adopted by others, we would obtain our object by that means. It would not be difficult to say to 300,000 men, you have arms in your bands —you have powers and dimensions and passions—you have cut lasses and firebrands--your masters are only 15,000, and yet they live in great houses and you in little ones—they get all the money and you get, all the whip—they arc clothed in purple and fair garment, and you in rags, and they mean to keep you so. You are 300,000, and they are but 15,000. We don't do tl is—and we dare not do it. — (Great cheering) It is gratifying to know that some of the West Ina dial: Assemblies are going beyond the British Parliament. Antigua has abolished slavery in 1834. The Mauritius have abolished it pros pectively. Nevis and Tortola and Dominique and Barbadoes, are, as the Americans say, just upon the fence, and are likely to fall on the right side.—(Laug. ter and cheering.) Ltt us, then, go to Parliana nt again, and on the Ist of August, and perhaps before her Majesty is summoned to attend at that august ceremony in which she will be th " oliserved of all observers," she may he called upon to do that which I belie - e she waits but to do, arid put her sign manual to the Bill f r the entire and u qualified emancipation of the slaves in the West Indies. I thank you for the kind attention with which you have heard me—one who has no claim on your attention, but that he appears as the advocate of an in sulted and enslaved class with the precincts of the British dominions. I will thank you still more, if you make my cause your cause—my clients your clients. Your applause is grateful, but if you help the negro lam thanked indeed; and all your thanks, without the practical effects of your sympathy and zeal, are to me worse than vain. Arouse public opinion upon this subject. It is not made in buildings like this, but it is made everywhere, wherever man meets man. At the Post-office —zit the Exchange in the streets—at the theatre—at the prayer.meeting—and at the Church porch--it may be made whenever you have an opportunity of inculcating on your fellow men the solemn duty of ending the heavy burdens and letting the oppressed go free. Let us tell the Government that if they pass ten thousand times ten thousand Bills, if they did not meet the justice and morality of the question, we will still be found ranged on the side of the oppressed, demanding every thing that equity requires.—(Hear, hear.) I trust that we shall see the Government at the head of this glorious, pure, and interesting work : then they will do themselves honour—then they will win their way back to those affections which I can tell them from a large experience they have lest—then they will gain the confidence they have sacrificed, and THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MAX 18 : 1838. place themselves high in tne estimation of a generous nation, and it may be that when they are gone over their graves, will be subscribed the proudest of epitaphs, that they were the friends of the negro. Mr. Thomson resumed his seat amidst the loudest applause. Mr. DANIELLE of Colchester moved the next resolution. After the eloquent speech of the gentleman who had just sat down, and at that late period of the day, he would not occupy their time at any length. He regretted to see so few gentlemen from the town of Colchester, and he presumed that the circumstance of so few persons having attended, resulted from the circumstance of the number of petitions and meetings that had been got up in various parts of the country already.—(Hear, hear.) He was sure, however, that the feeling of the people was as warm as ever in the cause of the abolition of the apprenticeship sys tem.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Tnostis CRAIG seconded the resolution, which was then put to the meeting, and carried unanimc usly. The Rev. CHARLES Yoare then moved a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff for his dignified conduct in the chair. He looked upon the subject they had met that day to advocate with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow—joy that so much had been done in behalf of the oppressed negro, and regret that their efforts had been hither unsuccessful. He rested the question simply not upon what thatlll an was, but what God required. He came to the conclusion from a reference to the Book of God, that slavery was a crime of the blackest dye—that it involved a threefold theft—a theft of the man's person, of his property, and of power to labour for himself. — (Ch ee rs.) They had nothing to do with the diffi culty into which Parliament had got itself, and it appeared to him that the substitute lately proposed was the most absurd and &ant mockery.— (Hear, and cl errs,) The principles of the apprenticeship system at home were not the most perfect in the world; but they involved the necessity of acquiring information, and the means of earning a liveli hood. But what had these to do with the iniquitous system which had been established in the West India colonies.—(Hear, and cheering.) He wished to see one other trophy brought to Christianity and religion— even the broken fetters of the negro. The establishment of hospitals originated with Charlemagne. the first Christian Emperor—the improve ment of prisons was the work of Howard, a man eminent for his piety, and the promotion of education and civilization had originated with men who were an ornament to Christianity.—(Cheers.) JOSEPH MARRIAGE, Esq.—Having been the organ of commu nication between the meeting and their respected High Sherifi; felt much pleasure in seconding the resolution, and additional gratification in bearing his testimony to the promptitude with which he responded to the call of the requisionists, and his anxiety to fix a day when the most numerous and respectable attendance might be obtained.—(Cheers.) He would remind them that the ° 0 millions paid to the planters was not the only sum they had to pay—they were supporting a large body of specisl magistrates ; and he held in his hand a list of not less than thirteen of these gentlemen, who had been dismissed for cruelty and drunkenness.— (Shame.) Dr. Palmer was not in that list—(A laugh)—and the meeting would be surprised to learn that he had been dismissed for administering the Abolition Act in the spirit of the British Legislature.—(Hear.) He regretted to find that so many of the Irish Members had voted against them, when it was stated by Lord Brougham, at Exeter Hall, that nearly all of them voted with Mr. Wilberforce. When Sir George Strickland's motion was brought forward, only twenty-nine voted in its favour; and he was sorry to say that among their opponents were some of those who had always advocated liberty. Among their opponents they could not forget that Mr. Shell had ranked himself—Mr. Shed who had only a short time previously received a pension of 1,0001. a year from the Government. He would also mention Mr. Hutton, the col. mh h me i , i r n o(hr,n t ei o :r,e. s a u l‘n l; ia p i wasr o :va r ih t na their ogo ethi)idira gentleman en u bcte s in the House , and had voted against league of Mr. O'Connell, who on the platform at Exeter Hall had pro misedot them. e whomCm o . ei ai ttrh a loa l d s t o uh , ceed t h b e iand H tal o ,l e n v; lao l: b l sb r . yb fn e t s fh t o e er n e r 3 , n , a eman cipation, Houseo. c (s ip h a a t m io e n : would s a h n a cl ine) n s o u support th them, ene xand time yet theirhe voted quest against them. — (Shame, g. — ht before the House that many of these gentlemen would alter their opi child h e e b r y e g 3 o i n t g i o h . i s w c a o s r p d u i ati by u y p i‘ p i o r r . t o R t A I i nLo t p i , o a n. n nions and advocate the abolition of slavery.—(Hear.) He would con t carried with accla mation. The HIGH SHERIFF briefly returned thanks, and the meeting separated. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. (From the Parliamentary Returns published this day.) A Return of the Number of NEWSPAPER STAMPS at One Penny and One Halfpenny issued to the several News papers in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist De cember 1837 to the 31st of March 1838 inclusive ; specifying each Newspaper by Name, and the Number of Stamps issued each Month during that period to each Newspaper. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 40 minutes past Three o' Clock. We are thankful to the Standard for informing its readers that The Sun has the most cir cu l a ti on o f an y of the Ev enin g Papers; though, if our memory be not treacherous, not many months have elapsed since the Standard made a contrary assertion; and when dar e d t o th e proo f, d ec lined to bring It forward. From the St an d ar d' s mo d e o f di s playing thePar liamentaryentary returns of the N ews p aper circulation, making them appear, we may be sure, as advantageous as possible for itself, not copying them bodily from the Parliamentary Paper es we did, it appears that in the last three months the circulation of the The Sun exceeded that of the Standard by 13,000 ; while the St an d ar d toppe d t h e Globe by 71,000. , and the Courier by 200 , 000 , d emonstrat i ng o ur great superio. rity over them a ll. If t h e S tan d ar d h a d included all the four months compris e d i n th e P ar li amen t ar y Returns, it would have appeared that cur superiority over the Standard was not less than 37,000. But it suited the purposes of the Standard to select from the returns the mouths which made the best show for itself, and even then it is compelled, however un willingly, to record our superiority ever it to the extent of 13,000. In comparing our circulation in 1838 to that of . 1837, the Standard adroitly throws together, at both periods, The Sun and the True Sun. Now it never is the case when one paper is incorporated with another, as the Standard—which has in corporated with it the Albion, the Star, and other Conserva tive journals—knows very well, that the incorporating journal receives an accession of subscribers equal to the whole number to the paper which is dropped. News-rooms, club-houses, circulating libraries, coffee-houses, taverns, &c., which take the two papers while they are in existence, that their customers may see them both, will not, it is plain, take two copies of the one which remains. Thus it is not fair to us to compare cur circulation in 1838 with the combined circulation of two paper s in 1837. It is also well known that in 1837 the True Sun, as well as the The Sun, was making great exertions, by ex tending its Parliamentary reports and sending expresses at a vast expense, to increase its circulation. Thos ;exertions and that expense have wholly ceased, and it ought not to be sur prising that the circulation which they caused should also have ceased. Notwithstanding these circumstances, which would justify a much diminished circulation, as compared to the circulation of the two Journals, the fact is that the circulation of The Sun was in the first three months of the present year only 3,000 less than the circulation of the two journals in 1837. We are double grate ful, therefore, to the Standard, for making our advantageous position, and the great benefits we have derived from our en. deavours to serve the public, so manifest. We cannot tell what the Standard may now be doing with its 100,000 stamps, exactly neither more nor less, taken monthly ; but we can promise it that the next returns will show for The Sun a great additional circulation, since the close of March. We do not accuse the Standard of garbling the returns, though its character warrants any suspicion, by excluding those for one month, in order to make out a case for the Conservative journall ; but the Standard must know that it misleads the public by classing the True Sun as a Ministerial journal. It was as bitter an opponent of the Ministers as the Spectator ; and the amount of its circulation should rather be reckoned a gain than a loss to the Ministerialists. But the unscrupulous Standard, as we know by the O'CONNELL case, and;the case of the FINNS, and the case of the forged pro clamation, if it can make out a plausible story, never cares whether it be correct or not. The mistake which it commits, of saying the increase of the Ministerial papers is only 1 7,500 in the three first months of the year, as compared to the three first months of 1837, while its own figure; show it to be 27,500, is of course a mere typographical or arithmetical blunder ; but even that error suits the purposes of the Tories, and it of course, devoutly copied by the Times. We said yesterday that it was doubtful now whether Minis ters would attempt to carry the Irish Tithe Bill through the House of Commons. To-day we arc informed by the Tory Journals that the Lords will never assent to that Bill, or any such Bill, while the appropriation resolutions remain on the journals of the House of Commons. Proud of their numbers, and having compelled their moderate leaders to embrace an ultra course, the Tories now loudly declare that there shall be no compromise whatever,and that all which is mischievous,arrogant, and bloodshedding in the Irish Church, shall be maintained, Under such circumstances, no Tithe Bill will be suffered to pass the House of Lords, and it will be foolishness to waste the time of the House of Commons in discussing it. Ministers, therefore, will, we hope, allow that measure to lie over, and pass the Irish Municipal Bill through the Mouse of Commons with all speed, and by as large majorities as possible. Per haps the Lords will also reject that, because the Aliens wish it. The question of the Abolition of Negro Apprenticeship on the Ist of August next, continues to agitate the country from one extremity to the other. The righteous cry of the Eman cipationists has at last found an echo in the inmost recesses of the national heart. Whether, therefore, the Government do or do not continue to support the Planters in outraging for two years longer the laws of justice and humanity—in swindlin g and insulting the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland— it will require but the communication to the poor Negro of a thousandth-part of the commiseration felt for him here, to render all further legislation on the subject of his deliverance from the bondage of slavery, altogether unne cessary. The Government has placed itself in a calamitous position in the event of the negroes preferring England's con struction of the Emancipation Act to that of the Noble Colonial Secretary, and consequently assun-ning the dignified rank of a free British subject on the Ist of August. Coercion in such a case would be out or the question. The shedding of one drop of blood to c=pel the emancipated negro to submit his limbs again to the chains of slavery would evoke a spirit in England too powerful for the strongest Administration that ever di rected the political destinies of the British empire. Of this we find proofs as strong as is consistent with the character of aChris tian people in the proceedings at every public meeting held upon this subject. The report of one held yesterday at Chelms ford, in Essex—given at great length in our columns of this day —furnishes no exception to the rule which we have here laid down. The doctrine of tho right of the negroes, to cast aside the last remnant of their fetters on the Ist of August, was propounded and defended in the presence of a: grave assemblage of magistrates and clergy—nor was there a voice raised, to call the true interpre ters of the national conviction to order. This ought to teach the Government a great and salutary lesson, the least longer delay, in'acquiring which may be followed by the most calamitous events. It is a mistaken notion of consistency--a fool-hardy display of firmness on the part of the Cabinet to persevere in any line of policy, which they have themselves ad mitted to be of dubious effect, after the nation has unanimously pronounced its condemnation. They cannot be so regardless of their own c haracters_after all they have done for the liberal cause—as to prefer political martyrdom to the abreviation of the legal duration of slavery in any part of the world. Our readers will perhaps recollect that Mr. FOWELL Bux- TON with that unwearied desire to protect the poor and suffer ing inhabitants of our distant possessions, which makes him worthy of being the successor of Mr. WILBERFORCE, ob tained in the last Parliament a Committee to inquire into the state of the Aborigines in our various Colonies. The infor mation which the report of that Committee laid be fore the public shed no honour on our country. Wherever our standard has been planted, and the land taken to form part of our own dominion, the inhabitants have been hunted, ploughed, or starved out of existence, with much cruelty and wanton waste of human life. Instead of looking on the Aborigines as infants confided to our care, whom we were bound to protect and instruct in all our civi lization, England has almost uniformly regarded them as wild beasts, of whom the land could not too soon be cleared. Such an exposure startled, we believe, a great many persons who were accustomed to form their opinion of the character of their coun try from the chaunts of the Tory press, and roused them to a sense of the indignityheaped on the whole nation by suffering such ignominious cruelty to be perpetrated in its name. The pub lic, however, seem not yet sufficiently alive to these enormities, and Mr. BUXTON complained at the meeting held on Wednes day, of which we publish a report to-day, that the small room at Exeter Hall was large enough for those who assembled. The report of the Society, which was then read, contains much interesting information, and as well as the speeches, particularly that of the CHAIRNIAN, is deserving of public attention. As there can in this case be no vested rights to im pede the progress of the Society, as its aim must necessarily be rather to prevent cruel aggression than to recover its fruits from the gripe of the oppressor, we may anticipate for it a successful career. There must be in this humane land thou sands of patriotic and warm hearts, eagerly desirous to relieve their beloved country from the hateful charge of cruelty to unprotected and ignorant people, under which it now lies. All those will support the Aborigines Protection Society. Through the kindness of Messrs. CowIE and Son, we have received a long letter from a Correspondent of theirs at Lima, dated the 10th of January, of which the pressure of domestic news obliges us to omit the insertion. The writer states that all was then comparatively tranquil ; the only fear enter tained being that Chili might decline to ratify the treaty of 19th November. Letters from Valparaiso intimated that the Treaty was by no means popular among the members and sup porters of the (Milian Government. It was likewise feared that the forcible seizure of a small schooner by the Peruvian Government which, by an article of the treaty, was to have bcen delivered up to that Power, would afford Chili a pretext for renewing the war between these Republics. We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the 10th of March. The following are extracts (From the Graham's Town Journal of Feb. 2.) MUTINY AMONGST THE HOTTENTOT SOLDIERS. MURDER OF LIEUTENAN I' CItOWE. It is our painful duty to record another instance of disaffection amongst the Hottentot corps on the frontier, attended with the murder of an officer, and an attempt to destroy every Europran present. It appears that in consequence of some dissatisfaction amongst the detachment of Mounted Rifles at Fort Peddle, Ensign Frazer was ordered thither with a relief party. Having executed this duty, he was returning to head quarters, and on his march stopped for the night at the post called Frazer's Camp. The detachment under his charge consisted of twenty-one men ; and these, as he supposed, had retired, after the close of day, to rest. About ten o'clock, however, as Ensigns Frazer, O'Reilly, and Crowe, with Mr. Cope, of the Commissariat, were seated in-doors, three shots were fired at them, one of which mortally wounded Lieutenant Crowe, passing through his body, and then striking with considerable force Mr. Frazer, who sat near him. This was followed by a volley, which was fired from the direction of the stables by the whole of the mutineers, but for tunately without effect. Ensigns O'Reilly and Frazer instantly sprang out of doors, and were so energetic—especially the former—in calling for the assistance of the troops belonging to that post, most of whom had retired to rest, that any further effusion of bkod was prevented. (From the South African Advertiser, March 10.) We are happy to state, that the mutineers (Cape Regiment, sixteen in number), who, after having murdered Lieutenant Crowe, had fled into the bush, or into Cafferland, have been nearly all apprehended. (From the Graham's Town Journal, March I.) Cafferland is in a most unsettled state. Faku and Capaai have made an inroad westward as far as the Bashee, and have laid waste the country for a considerable distance. (From the Zuid Afravan, March 9.) - We have been informed, on good authority, that his Excqency the Governor 1611 shortly leave Cape Town for the unsettled frontier dis tricts, and that orders have been issued .for two companies of the 97th regiment to be kept in readiness to leave this for Graham's Town, in case of emergency. Brussels and German Papers of the latest dates have been received this morning. It appears that the movement of the French troops on the Belgian frontier has alarmed Prussia, who has put her garrisons in motion with a view to support the authority of the Diet. The Members of the Town Council of Brussels have re signed in a body, because the Government has declined to in demnify the city for the losses it sustained during the Re volution which placed LEOPOLD on the Belgian Throne. The Hamburg Correspondent has letters from Hanover of the 9th, stating that the electors of that capital have agreed to return a Member to the Second Chamber, under the following resolutions, which they request may be entered upon its journals : " First, that it is by no means their intention to renounce by this election the rights which have been secured to the country and the several Corporations by the Constitution of 1833 ; secondly, that they shall consider the Conssitution of 1833 and its enactments as legally existing, till something else shall have been legally substituted for it by mutual agreement; and, lastly, that they expressly reserve to them selves all the means of asserting all the rights justly acquired according to the Constitution of 1833, either alone, or in concert with other Cor porations of the country." These resolutions are signed by all the Magistrates and Elders of the city of Hanover. Their adoption by such a body has greatly alarmed the Government. The followi►,g are extracts : BERLIN, MAY 1 3.—Yesterday afternoon, between five and six o'clock, the first of our expected august visitors, their Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover arrived in this city, with their suite, and alighted at the Palace which they formerly occupied. A company of the 2d regiment of the Guards, with colours flying and music playing, was stationed as a Guard of Honour before the Palace, round which numerous spectators were assembled. The guards having paid the honours to their Majesties, withdrew, leaving only the usual double guard, his Majesty, the King, having been pleased to decline any fur ther orders. The Grand Duke and Duchess of Mucklenburg Strelitz, are expected on the 16th ; the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mccklen. burg Schewrin, and the Grand Duke and Duchess of Anhaltz Dessau, on the 1 7th ; and lastly, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 1 9th, the Empress of Russia, the Imperial Prince Alexander, the Grand Duchess Alexander, and the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael. The King of Wurtemberg is expected on the 23d. The day of the arrival of the emperor of Russia is not decided, but he will probably arrive within a week or two. Exchange on London, three months, 6.25.1.—P russian State Gazette. BELGIAN I , UNDS—Baussm.s, MAY 16. Actual Debt, 2 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lO2 Loan of Thirty Millions... ............... Lnan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 98% Society of Commerce, 4 y:, per Cent 165 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 11194 National Society . —lTrussels Papers, May 16. ' AUSTRIAN FUND.S.—Vfmgm, MAY 9. Five per Cents. Mctalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Rank Shares 14483, —Allgenzeine Zeitung, Mayll4. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, May 15. Bills. Money. Austrian Metariques, 5 per cent. Ditt.. ditto 3 per cent. Ditto ditto 2,1 per cent, — Ditto Bank Shares 1433 1434 -Luglo-Russian Loan IOS% 103,; ___ ..., Paper Inscription, 6 per cent — Russian 5 per cents. Metal. ,_ Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto, Certificates Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent — _ Ditto, 3 per cent. — Dutch 23¢ per Cents. 53% Ditto 5 per Cents — Polish 13onds, 3 per cents. New Tickets 1591 159 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 72% 72 Norwegian Lean of 1g..34, 4 per cents. , lOl Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents.... Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent lB% 18 Greek 4 per cents. 1633, guaranteed by France EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMItURG, MAY 15 —l3 8 , 4 ; two months, 13 SM. STOCKIIOLN4 MAY S. —Two months, 12 16. Sr. FETF.RSHURGIY, MAY 4.—Three months, 10 39-54. —Hamburg Papers, May 15. Letters and Papers from Madrid to the 10th instant, have reached us this morning. Their contents are of more than ordinary interest. The Banking Houses of J. LAFONT and Co., of Madrid, and Messrs. LAFFITTE and Co., of Paris, and their friends, have submitted to the Government, a new Finan cial project, authorised by the Law of the 17th ult., of which we subjoin a summary from the Eco del Conzmercio, of the 9th instant : t 9 4, - 741 ntit 4t- alan• WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 18,.1836. EXTRACT. LONDON EVENING NEWSPAPERS. The Sun...Pec. 1837 102,000 Jan. 1838 lll,OOO Feb. 1838 96,000 Mar. 1838 lll,OOO Standard... Dec. 1837 78,000 Jan. 1838 105,000 Feb. 1838 lOO,OOO Mar. 1838 lOO,OOO 420,000 --- 383,000 Globe Dec. 1837 72,000 Jan. 1838 90,000 Feb. 1838 72,000 Mar. 1838 72,000 Courier..... Dec. 1837 31,000 Jan. 1838 Feb. 1838 33,000 Mar. 1838 33,000 306,000 136,000 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 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THE PRECURSOR for MAY 19 ; a large WEEKLY JOURNAL, price Twopence, will contain, in addition to a very interesting account of the present STATE and CONDITION of all the LONDON NEWSPAPERS, shown in a perfectly new light, a few words from Mr. Lockhart, Editor of the Quarterly Review, on the " Ninepenny Sales of the Dandy Novels,' lately discussed in the House of Commons. With 21 folio columns of Thoughts and Facts in Literature, worthy of being learned and stored. 126, Strand ; and of all Booksellers and Newsmen. NEW FINANCIAL PROJECT. " Itentes Five per Cents. are to be issued to the amount of a capital of of 500,000,000 reals effectual value. Supposing the nominal capital of the loan to be 2,000,000,000 reals, the titles shall be issued as follow : " 1,100,000,000 in shares of 500 piasters. " 550,000,000 in shares of 250 piasters. " 350,000,000 in shares of 125 piasters. _ _ . . " The interest shall be paid every six months (viz., on each ‘2 sth of June and 25th of December) in Paris, Madrid, and other cities in Europe which shall hereafter be indicated. " The issuing of the Rentes will take place 'in four series of 500,000,000 each, and each of those series must produce 125,000,000 in money. " The loan is not to be negotiated under 50 percent. The subscribers may pay it monthly or by tenths. They may vest 50 per cent. in cash, and the rest in bonds or titles of the active or consolidated debt hereto fore recognized, bearing 5 per cent. interest at the rate of 50 per cent. of the nominal sum they represent; titles of the deferred debt which is to be converted into active debt next year, at the rate of 25 per cent. or the non-consolidated, and the debt negotiable at 30 per cent. " The borrowers will deduct 2 per cent. on the sums received, for the annual amortissentent of that debt. " The securities fot the payment of the capital and interests are to be— " All the revenues of the kingdom, and in particular the proceeds of the customs to the amount of 40,000,000; the net produce of the mines of Almaden, 20,000,000; the surplus of the revenue of the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, 00,000,000. Total, 120,000,000 reals. " Property of the secular clergy to the value of 800,000,000 reals is to be mortgaged for the amortissePient of said loan. The titles or bonds of the present loan will be received for their entire value us payment of said property. The holders bind themselves to advance the Spanish Government 200,000,000 reals, by twelfths, and monthly. " One.-third of the total amount of the loan is to be negotiated in Spain. " The Government pledges itself to provide by all the means in its power for the payment of the interests of the old debt, both fo reign and domestic. In the mean time it offers to the holders of those securities Treasury Bonds at 6 per cent., interest, which is to be religiously paid. " Should the interests of those dividends (Coupons) not be paid when they become due, the Government promises to accept them for their value, in payment of all taxes. " The Government pledges itself to consolidate, in the course of the two months, following the conclusion of the present contract, the twelfth part of the whole of the deferred debt. " During the issuing of the titles of their contract, the Government cannot contract any other loan." These terms are tight enough, considering that the capi talists proposing them in their address to the Government, among other motives equally disinterested, offer the following patriotic consideration, which they would have Spain and Europe believe influenced them not a little in coming thus op portunely to the rescue of the constitutional cause : " The houses making to your Excellency the proposals contained and developed in the aforesaid project, are moved thereto by distinct consi derations, according to the position in which they are respectively placed. Both houses, as well as their friends, are identified by their Principles and adhesion with the cause of liberty and of the Throne; and wish therefore to see the all-consuming civil war promptly and glo riously terminated. The former, as Spaniards, wish to see it happily ended, without having recourse to foreign aid, because then the evils afflicting us would be terminated, and the wants most urgently pressing and demanding relief would be soon satisfied, and the whole profit of the loan remain within the nation." On the Bth inst. the Committee of the Cortes to whom the Tithe Bill was referred, presented their report, or rather their reports, to the Chamber—for, in fact, they made no fever than three of them. One section reported in favour of continuing the old rate of tithe ; another in support of its reduction by one half; and a third insisted on the necessity of its total abolition. The ads ices from the provinces were rather favourable, though it was feared that assistance could not reach Montalvan in time enough to save thitt town from sharing the fate of Calanda, as CABRERA was hourly expected before it, at the head of 400 cavalry and 7,000 infantry. NEGRI at the head of t2OO cavalry—the remains of his shattered .division—reached Cetina on the 2d inst. _ In the capital itself the aspect of affairs was gradually brightening ; while it was generally reported that Don CARLOS was involved in difficulties, personal and pecu niary, from which lie would find it impossible to extri cate himself. The letters receiwd this morning from the North of Spain are confirmatory of the truth of these reports. Don CARLOS has been compelled to change his headquarters and his Cabinet—to order VILLAREAL from confinement, and entrust him with the War Department, and to place the Infante Don SEBASTIAN at the head of all his forces, in consequence of mutinies at Aoiz, at Estella, and at Manera, en the 3d, 6th, and 7th inst. In fact, the bulk of the Carlists, officers and men, are weary of the war, and insist upon either abandoning it altogether, or pursuing it effen sively. Don SEBASTIAN, VILLAREAL, and CABRERA are for the latter course; whereas Don CARLOS and GUERGITE are for continuing the present system, in the hope of wearying out the QUEEN'S Generals, and exhausting the resources of the Constitutionalists. But this would require constant subsidies ; and the mischief of it is, as regards the Carlists, that the King of SARDINIA has already exhausted the funds placed at his disposal by the Holy Alliance, for the use of the Pretender. The Paris papers of 'Wednesday have all been received. We copy from the Charte the following official announcement from Spain : " BAYONNE, MAY 15.—According to reports from various points of the frontier, this day received, a great defection is taking plus in the Carlist hands. Don Carlos is stated to have left Estella in consevence of serious disturbances, and proceeded towards Onate." In the preceding article on the news from Madrid, received this morning, we have given the particulars of the "defection" in the Carlist bands referred to in the above dispatch. Prince TALLEYRAND was so dangerously ill on Wednesday that his life was despaired of. The shock of his brother's death is said to be the remote came of his illness. Nothing occurred in the Chambers on Tuesday of any im portance. The Bayonne journals of the. 12th arc filled with details relative to _S the meeting of several Carlist battalions. The seem , 04siii - ---- 7,,,,... verre mutinied on the 3rd at Aoiz, the fifth at Es ikl t. 40 0- -; ~„..:: 0 the third at Manera on the 7th. Insubordination ,is 'k - , eailing so' rt-1:11::'Ai 1 pidly that if it is not soon checked the army of el receriacr, lir rt :..:_ r.'l, t danger of complete dissolution. The soldiers de A' - , pit pay Wiil:- / ,,. / arms in their hands ; the officers refuse to serve un gitikko.nni4nrof - i -, N ' Gnerque, and some persons affirm that cries of " Mi&agi . fiC_`6r ifri . ,W.`"i have been heard. The Ex-Carlist General, Segestihelza, has been Kieti t ' l3lSiAt 7 . 1 S 7 cion of being c mcerned in the affair of Munagorri. ' Count Negri and the heads of his stafrhave received orders from Don Carlos to repair to the Castle of Sm Gregorio de Sorlada. Pe:sons arrived from Santander announce that Zabala, who was at Ne,;ri's expedition, has been taken in the environs of Ereviesca. The telegraphic dispatch, published by the Ministerial journals, con. firms the news in the journals of the frontier. Other accounts of the event at Estella have been received. A letter from Saragossa says, in a P.S.—lt is aMrined that 2,000 men of the Catalonian faction presented themselves on the Bth and 9th in the town below mentioned, and laid down their arms ; at Cerbera, 500 men ; at Fraga, the whole band ; at Lerida, 700 men. This desertion is ascribed to the confusion produced by the active pursuit of Baron de Meer.—Le Commerce. FEENCH FUNDS.—PArtrs, MAY 15. LATEST PRICES. Five per Cents. 1091. Pc. Three per Cents., Slf. Bank Actions, 2,710 f. Romans, 101. Belgian Loan, 103 Belgian Bank, 1,440 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 25 Spanish Actives, 22T;,. Spanish Passives, 5 THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. Mae are moderate arrivals of grain and flour reported this week, except of Wheat, the quality of which is good. The trade for Wheat since Monday has been heavy, but prices are not lower. Barley, Beans, and Pease remain as last reported. The Oat trade is firm at the terms of Monday. The sales of Flour have this week been limited at former rates. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour Eqsr,ush Irish - 6,890 Forelga - SMITHFIELD, Trade, to-day, was dull again, and prices much the saute as on Mon day la,t. The supply was tolerably good. Beef, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 261. ; Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Vcal, 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. ; Pork, 4s. 2d. to ss. :2d. ; Lamb, Gs. 4d. to 7s. 2d. : Calves, 246 ; Pigs, 380 ; Sheep and Lambs 8,763; Beasts, 1,009. COLONIAL MARKETS. To-day there was but one small public sale ; and that was of 2,000 bags of white Bengal Sugar, which went at very firm prices -555. to 63c., according to quality, are the quotations. British Plantatation Sugar sells slowly, 'but prices are firm ; lowest; 535. ; middling 595.; best, 645. 6d. per cwt.; 2,000 hits. will not have been sold this week, we judge. For Refined Sugar there is no price, as there are no goods in the market. Tea continues flat, but is not lower. In Rice, Spices, and Cocoa, nothing passing. Small, unusually small, as is our public business to-day, by private contract, there is scarcely any business passing. The imports, owing to contrary winds, remain light. As we have sixteen or seventeen East Indiamen off the coast, we may shortly expect come large importations of produce. We had a small sale of 279 bags of Saltpetre, which fetched former rates to-day. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 17. There was a good business transacted in Cotton at this day's market, both speculators and dealers buying largely, the former having taken 2,500 bags. 6,000 bags are the entire quantity parted with, for which our last quotations were readily obtained :-200 Egyptian, 83d. to 10d.; 30 Pernam, 9Ad.; 200 Surat, 4yd. to 5d.; 30 Bahia, Sad.; 5,540 Ame rican, sd. to Sad. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 1 Beans. Pease. Per Quarter. s. to s. S. B. S. to S. S. to S. S. to s. Blandford ..—.............. 57 72 27 34 20 22 40 Brigg*. 54 58 23 24 18 26 31 44 30 32 Cambridge..---.. 57 34 25 40 38 Chard .—....—.............. 56 61 21 27 18 20 34 38 31 40 Huntingdon .--.. 46 60 34 38 24 29 39 42 —. Long Sutton—... 23 33 10 20 30 34 Louth .......----... 43 56 21 25 18 26 30 37 ynn............--.—... 52 63 22 31 16 - 27 30 32 32 34 Newark Nottingham ---...... 44 59 28 31 19 28 35 42 —. Peterborough . 49 62 35 42 22 29 38 43 —, Plymouth —.. 40 58 30 34 20 23 - P0ntefract..,......,,..,,. 67 43 27 43 —— Sleafonl .....—, ,—.. 65 70 36 33 22 28 41 43 Uppitigham .., 143 64 21 30 18 28 32 44 Wisbech LEEDS 'CORN MARKET.— May 15 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffhlk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Ws. to 6"s. 11:7 ro Barley, Norfolk and Suliblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 631b.. 32s. to 41s. (7 Oats, I'otatoe —lllealing, For. lid. tolly,d . ' Eng. 10 1 / 2 d. to 11%d. per steno. Shelling '> s. to 28i. per load. Rapeseed, English, 23/. to 21/ Foreign, 24s to 251. per last. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at the closing prices of yesterday-941 for the Account and Money, little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 67 69 ; India Bonds, 79; Bank Stock, 204 205. In the Foreign Market, although the news from Spain is of a fa vourable nature, and the price of Spanish Stock coming higher from Paris, little improvement has been made in Spanish Active this morning, which may at present may be quoted 22.-1 left off yesterday at 21 t i 223 ; Portuguese., 361 371 ; Three per Cents., 251 1 ; Brazilian, 791 ; Mexican, 2SI 29; Colombian, 27! 28; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 54i a. The particulars of the Budget, which is to be announced this evening, is anxiously looked for by the City capitalists, and speculators in the Funds. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 204%, I adia Stock 27 0 34 3 per Cent. Red. 93% Ditto Bonds 3 per Cant. Con; 84% V s South Sea Stock 31 per Cmt......,,.. ~. ........ ... 101 l i g Old Annnities,........ ...... .... Ditto Red.... ........ ~. New 3% par Cent............. 1024 Y 4 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 —.... New 5 per Cent... . Exch. Ellis, .(7.1,t 0 '........ 67 69 pm. Bonk Long Annuities to expire DIU° ...............300 67 (59 pin. Jan. 5, ISM... l5 1-1 G Ditto Small Oct. 10, 165 n... Jan. 5, 16it0 l5 5-11% Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1860............. .... .. Bank Stock for Account....... 20414 April 5, 1&t0 ...... ..... ... Indift VtocL for Account... ...... 271 Jan. 5, 1670........ ........ .... Console for Acconnt 04% 4 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bond.; 13e!gian Bends .1011,', Ditto Account Ditto Account... Brazilian Floods ~.,...• — Ditto Now Bonds 3;% - Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per c0nt..... ......... ,25% 4, Ditto Account ........ :h ill ian Bonds ......... ..... Prussian Bcnds Ditto Account ......... ...... Columbian Bonds Rusdian Bonds, 18j2 Ditto Account Ditto Account ... C3huribian Bontig, 1824 — Ditto Account 29 Dinith Bonds ..........., ...... Ditto Metallic..." ....... — Spanlsh Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds. 1834 22% N % "'"'. - - - - - ... . _ .. . Ditto Account — Ditto Account 2-44% u %'si, Greek 8cnd5...... Ditto Bonds, 1925 — --- 4 per cant. —f. —.-- Ditto Account— — 3 per cent. _f. .....a . --f. MLA 24 per cent 54% Ditto, 6 per cent. NI e D x irto an A ß ec o o n t 5 29 Ditto Account _ Ditto Account per cent.... Exchange 48 ,i D.i.to, 5 per cent lOO% 3Ga t i Nca;)olitan — Ditto Account — POCES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter Railway Company lO 8 1 ,4 Gnat A estern Railway Company 65 95 Sr gh ton Railway Company" 8 9% London and 131ackwall Railway L ‘nclon and Greenwich Aailway Company 2O 153 e, London and Southampton (New) Railway lO 31 London and Croydon Railway Company 2O 16 1 4 Ditto New Serir , M:.i.chcstor and Birmingham Railway 7 8%.7.4 N nib Midland Railway Company 35 41 Aspbalte, Claridge's Patent '2 11% 11 12 • Do British Do. United States... Bitumen, Bastenne and Gaujac Do. Robinson —...3 Do. Polonceau •, 2X, Colonial Bank Ditto Scrip London and Westminster Bank 2O 21% Mexican and South American 5 6 L 4, National Provincial Bank of England HALF-PAST ONE. . , A Hambro' mail has just arrived, of the 15th inst., bringing the Me talics, 104 Bank Shares, 1,434. I❑ the above Papers we do not find any political news of clnsequence. Consols have been during the morning at 94k, for Account; for Money, 94h; Exchequer Bills, 69; India Bonds, 79; Bank Stock, 2041 ; India Stock, 2704. In the Foreign Market the chief speculations have been in Spanish Stock, which reached 227, since which it may be quoted at 2.2 i with Coupons ; Portuguese 37 ; Three per Cents, 25* ;. Brazilian, 79i; Mexican, 281 ; Columbian, 28; Dutch Two.and..a.llalf per Cents., 54k. No accounts as yet of the steamers. In Shares very little doing. Claridge's Asphalte 10 prem. ; Uni:ed States 1 prem. ; Polonceau IA per Cent. premium. Railways rather bet ter; Brighton has risen to IA prem. THREE 0' CLOCK Consols for Account, 043 ANTWERP, MAY 16.—Lord Brougham embarked this morning on board the City of Hamturgh steam-boat, for London. The Masonic Fraternity, which, in point of num bers and respectability, has made extraordinary advances under the auspices of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, continue to evince the most laudable zeal in the maintenance and extension of their chari. ties. The respective schools for the education of the sons and daugh ters of deceased and impoverished Freemasons, were never in so flourish. ing a condition as at this moment, notwithstanding that an institution for the sustenance and shelter of aged and decayed Freemasons, has been making comparatively silent but rapid progress during the last three three years. We understand that Alderman Thomas Wood, a highly esteemed member of the Tuscan Lodge, will preside at the approaching festival in laid of the Masonic Asyltun. Our warmest wishes are offered for the perfect and early success of this excellent charity. A benefit is to be given this night for the Destitute Polish Refugees at the Haymarket Theatre. The attractions of the evening arc great, and enforced as thdy are by charity, we trust they will not attract in vain. Every friend of humanity—of patriotic virtue—of national independence—will, we trust, on this occasion unite heart and hand in endeavouring to make the benevolent experiment of this night adequate to its charitable object. In every view that can. be taken of the Polish question, men of every class in society, and of every shade in politics, arc interested in the preservation of the Polish Refugees, from the melancholy prospect which now stares them in the face. As men, Englishmen, and Christians, we arc interested in the relief of brother men who are more distressed, and who have been more outrageously op. pressed than ever men were before. It is notorious that men of the first families, used to all the refinements of society, are now suffering hardships, by working on public railways, &c. &c., which would render an exchange with the lot of the commiserated negro preferable. While the Polish Refugees exist, the Polish nation may be said to exist in England, i extinguished transiently though it be by incorporation with Russia in violation of the treaty of Vienna. The time may,come when the exis. tence of these opr.ressed martyrs of rational freedom may be a matter of vital importance to the liberty and independence of England and of the world. They may become a bulwark against the future anti. English en croachments and liberticiee designs of Russia. The most narrow inte rests of selfish expediency are, therefore, as emphatically involved in the preservation of the Polish Refugees, es the claims of humanity, the sympathies of Christian charity, and the rights of individual freedom and of national independence. A Touch OF A tiTiqulTY.—A manager of a French theatre, announcing a play called The Death of Abel, advertises that it would Le acted " in the costume,o be of the times . 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